Accident

A woman who died Wednesday the after vehicle she was riding in crashed on Apple Harvest Drive southwest of Martinsburg was identified as Charm Marie Edwards of Gerrardstown, W.Va., West Virginia State Police said Thursday. Edwards, 70, was a passenger in a 2000 Ford Explorer that her husband, Bobby Adams, was driving when the crash occurred in the 8000 block of Apple Harvest Drive, troopers said. The accident was reported at 5:11 p.m., emergency officials had said. Edwards, who was thrown from the vehicle, was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m., troopers said.

A West Virginia woman died after the vehicle she was riding in crashed Wednesday on Apple Harvest Drive (W.Va. 45) southwest of Martinsburg, according to West Virginia State Police. The woman's name was not immediately released pending notification of next of kin, troopers said. The crash in the 8700 block of Apple Harvest Drive near Loop Road was reported at 5:11 p.m., a Berkeley County emergency communications supervisor said. The woman was thrown from the vehicle, troopers said.

At least one person was injured in an accident on I-81 involving a tractor-trailer and two other vehicles on I-81 northbound in West Virginia, a dispatcher for Berkeley County Emergency Services said. Traffic was moving by 7:10 a.m. It had been stalled since the 5:35 a.m. accident, which was just south of Exit 23 to U.S. 11 toward Marlowe/Falling Waters, the dispatcher said. The accident took place in a construction zone where new bridges have been built over U.S. 11 at Exit 23. Traffic was using the newly opened northbound span Tuesday morning.

Police on Monday identified a motorcyclist who was killed Saturday in a collision with another vehicle at the intersection of East Washington Street and Hollywood Drive. Andrew Orville O. Kuntaraf, 33, of Laurel, Md., died in the crash, Charles Town police said in a news release. Kuntaraf was taken to Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Ranson, W.Va., where he was pronounced dead, Knott said. The accident occurred at 4:38 p.m., a Jefferson County 911 dispatcher said. Knott said the other vehicle involved in the collision was an Audi driven by Joshua A. Collins, 21, of Martinsburg, W.Va.

A New Jersey man has been identified as the person who died of injuries sustained in a single-vehicle accident on Easter Sunday, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department said Friday. Frank Stephen Kula II, 53, of Bordentown Township, N.J., died at City Hospital in Martinsburg following the Sunday, March 31, crash at the intersection of Apple Harvest Drive and State Circle, according to a sheriff's department news release. Kula was driving a Volvo west on Apple Harvest Drive at 3:03 a.m. when he lost control of the car, deputies said.

A Hagerstown man has been arraigned on felony and misdemeanor charges in a fatal vehicle crash in October 2012 that killed his brother and left another man paralyzed. Timothy Lee Kegarise, 33, of Hagerstown, was arraigned Friday by Berkeley County Magistrate Harry L. Snow on single felony counts of driving under the influence with death and destruction of property, and one misdemeanor count of DUI with injury, according to magistrate court documents. Kegarise's brother, Thomas L. Kegarise, also of Hagerstown, died as a result of multiple blunt force trauma in the Oct. 11 crash on Hedgesville Road (W.Va.

A Boonsboro man who pleaded guilty to causing the death of another man in an alcohol-related traffic accident last year was released from prison Monday after serving fewer than two weeks of a four-year sentence. Bryan May, 45, of 103 Tiger Way, appeared before Judge Daniel P. Dwyer on Monday in Washington County Circuit Court for a sentence-modification hearing. The terms of May's release were agreed upon during a hearing in Circuit Court on March 19, when May pleaded guilty to one count each of criminal negligent manslaughter vehicle/vessel and driving/attempting to drive a vehicle while under the influence.

Area high school baseball coaches whose teams competed against those coached by Ronald Clatterbuck knew they were often in for a hard-fought battle. Clatterbuck, a former Berkeley Springs, W.Va., High School baseball coach, came at games with “every ounce of energy he had” and the enthusiasm was evident in his players, some of those coaches said Sunday. Clatterbuck, 75, of Berkeley Springs, died Saturday afternoon in a boating accident while he and his son, Ross, and grandson, Chasen, were fishing on the Cacapon River, according to Morgan County Sheriff Vince Shambaugh.

Dozens of people clamored around the small stage inside the ballroom at American Legion Post 211 in Funkstown, eager to hear 12-year-old Drake Fignar perform. Skillful beyond their years, Drake and friend Anthony Pappas played “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd before the audience. But also for Drake's father, Jeffrey Scott Fignar, who watched via Skype on a computer resting on a table about 25 feet away. Fignar, who is diabetic, suffered a brain injury and has been paralyzed since a 2011 car accident that threatened his life.